A long time ago I drew a cup for a Starbucks cup design contest. I didn’t win, but I had a fun time drawing the stuff I see every day at work! Now it lives on a shelf in the back room. Everyday peeeoooplllle.
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For Inktober #3 I drew Eurydice in the raining elevator. Also pictured: the Small Stone, the Large Stone, and the Loud Stone.
I’m really enjoying these Sarah Ruhl plays that my sister loaned me, especially her Orpheus and Eurydice retelling, which Allison and I both agree is the most beautiful play we’ve ever read.
Here's my haul from this week’s life drawing session, tumblrers!
This model was very gaunt. I really wanted to capture his unique body but I feel like I don’t know to get the right effects yet. Sigh, practice practice!
A day late, but hopefully not a dollar short! Here is this little leafy goober for the first day of Inktober. I think, for the curious, that she is half dryad.
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I'm very excited to share with you the chapter splash page I drew for Dirty Diamonds All Girl Comic Anthology! Can't wait to devour the new Beauty issue at SPX!
Do you recognize any objects from your childhood or your parents'?
We can’t stop - here are more previews, including one of the six splash pages from the book! With so many incredible reactions to the theme of “beauty,” we’ve divided the upcoming issue of Dirty Diamonds into six sections that all deal with similar subject matter. Each section will be headlined by a stunning splash page illustration. The first is by contributor Noni Garcia (teenytinynoni) for the section about Bodies.
Go see our campaign on Kickstarter!
And of course, here are the comics! From top to bottom:
Elizabeth Simins (bad-at-games)
Kate MacDonald (katedrawsthings)
Mariá Raposa Branca (raposabranca)
Scotty (Crystal Jayme) (scotty6000)
Kimberly Frisch (kimberlyfrisch)
Updates about the Kickstarter campaign: We’ve added FAQs to the project page, and we’ve announced a pledge upgrade option. If you increase your pledge by $20, we will include Dirty Diamonds #5: Comics with your reward package, regardless of which reward tier you’ve selected!
Let’s keep this thing rolling! Please help us out by either backing this project or helping spread the word with a reblog. :) We’re doing great, and it’s all because you’ve been such amazing supporters so far!
Friends! One of my comics will be published in Dirty Diamonds All-Girl Comic Anthology #6. I am flabbergasted to be featured among so many amazing ladies! Check out our Kickstarter - there are two weeks left.
I’ll also be contributing a splash page for one chapter. Stay tuned!
These leaves were all on a baby tree. My hypothesis is that the eye-shaped leaves are its baby leaves, and its adult leaves will be dinosaur feet. Mittens are the transition. Can anyone confirm?
Lemon basil princess needs some work.
Drawing in two tones of marker is making me want to do some three-color screen prints.
It's been a gorgeous week here in DC. I spent a few afternoons drawing plants at the community garden. It made me feel a way I haven't felt since I was a kid when I used to spend whole days playing outside in the woods next to my house.
Maybe I'll do a set of plant-themed Adventure Time princesses for funsies.
Pokeweed is one of my favorite plants. It grows up everywhere, especially next to sheds and fences, it gets really tall really fast and then can't support its own weight, it has awesome berries with purple insides, and the stems are bright freaking pink!
Pokeweed Princess is a little bit impudent and contrary, and she doesn't like people telling her where to put her stuff. She and her pokeberry guys start building their pink leafy castle tower right up on the side of Finn and Jake's treehouse. Jake and Finn go to ask her to move, but she's like, "This is a good spot, and my people deserve to live here too." Like, "I'm sorry you feel that way, but I'm gonna do my thing." Her workers are really annoying. They start working on the tower at 5am and wake Jake and Finn up. The pokeweed blocks the sunlight and starts tipping over the tree. Finn and Jake can't get any sleep, and soon they're too tired to fight evil. Finn is like, "We live in the middle of an enormous empty field. MOVE. OVER. THERE! AHHH!" Eventually though, the tower gets too tall and it collapses, causing a lot of damage to the treehouse, but at least PWP is gone. Unfortunately she builds her next castle right next to the Candy Castle. PB is like, "Get. Out." But Pokeweed Princess is like, "Look, I gotta support my people just like you have to support your people. This place is good. Why shouldn't we share it? Just let me do my thing and I'll go when I'm done."
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I spent this weekend at the SMALL PRESS EXPO here in D.C. and I am feeling fueled and rearing to make things! Most of the weekend I spent going "ohmygosh!ohmygosh!ohmygosh!" in my head. I attended SPX as a volunteer. Right before the grand opening, Dan sent me inside the showroom to be in charge of flinging open the door when it struck 11:00. I slipped through Door D, turned around, AND THE VERY FIRST PERSON I SAW WAS SAM BOSMA. "Sam Bosma! Your drawing is on the home screen of my phone!" is what I fortunately did not blurt out. During SPX I had the honor of talking shop with the likes of Nate Powell (a good guy if I ever met one) and Kali Ciesemier, getting calmly evacuated from a lecture hall by Lynda Barry, and meeting a ton of women who are absolutely killing it in comics. So many artists blew my mind, both in panels and in casual conversations. I feel so lucky to have found such a community of peers and mentors. I WANT TO BE LIKE YOU.
So I decided to really work and level up my technical skill. I am watching composition tutorials, drawing mega plants (more on that soon), and I am going to try really hard to get over my terror of sharing my work on the internet.
For today, here are some highlights from tonight's Life Drawing session with the Washington Drawing Center. Major awe for this model, who held that reclining pose for twenty minutes and was downright stoic about it.
Hi. You probably know me as that chick who updates once every like three months with a bunch of school projects. Or you may actually know me as a flesh-and-blood human. But now you can also know me as that girl who is making handmade sketchbooks to your favorite sketchbook specifications!
I love to make books and can make them a lot of ways, so here are some of the things you'll want to consider:
Size: This can range from a few inches to about the size of an 8.5x11" sheet of printer paper.
Shape: Rectangular?
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA SHAPED?
Some other weird shape that you desire deep in your heart? I will try my best to accommodate.
Also, would you like it bound on the short side or the long side? I'm really enjoying my short-side-bound sketchbook for an extra cinematic drawing space, but long-side-bound books tend to be sturdier.
Binding: How is this pulchritudinous tome holding together?
(Left to right) Coptic with covered spine? Coptic with exposed spine? Belgian? These three are all nice because they open completely flat, especially the exposed spine coptic.
Exposed spines are the bee's knees! You can do so many things with them.
Then there's the perfect bound hardcover:
With paper that's not too stiff, a largish book size, and horizontal pages, I've found that these can be quite flexible too. It makes a more solid geometric book block that's completely flat when closed. This is more or less how your standard paperback book is made.
Paper: What do you want inside?
On hand right now I have plain old printer paper (beat it up! draw horrifically! no pressure!) and watercolor paper. If you have a favorite paper type I can hie to an art store and pick some up. It's also possible to dissect store brand sketchbooks and re-bind them. I'm pretty fond of my brown butcher paper sketchbook, which I can draw on in both black and white.
Also: Do you want lines or graph paper inside?
Colors and/or Theme: Some kind of aesthetic guidelines would be neat.
I make most of my books from whatever scrap I've got around, sometimes with some collage involved.
I like to stick different kinds of ephemera like old photos or map pieces inside. Like a surprise interlude for inspiration.
I can also make you an assortment of these little side-sewn notepads with things printed on the front. Fandom things. Mysterious things. Arcane things. Particular things of your choosing.
Or, if you're overwhelmed by all the options, tell me to use my judgment and I'll whip up something cool!
If you're interested, hit me up here on Tumblr, send me an email at [email protected], or hit me up on Facebook if we're that kind of friends. Then we can talk it over.
Prices will range from $15-20 for books smaller than 4.25 x 5.5 inches (a quarter of a sheet of letter paper), and $25-40 for larger books. Prices will vary depending on your book's design and materials, but I'll do my best to work out a reasonable price.
I've been on the road this summer and a little extra income while I get back east and start earning money on a more reliable basis would help me out thiiiiiiiis much.
Commission a sketchbook! Feed an artist! Have a sketchbook!
In the best graduation day coincidence ever, I got to meet my childhood hero, Eoin Colfer! When I was a kid, his book Artemis Fowl was my favorite book. (Although I first read it up because I'd overheard a boy I had a crush on talking about it.) But it quickly became independently my most favorite ever and I read it like twenty times, whenever I was upset or scared, it would help me calm down or go to sleep.
So while I was eating dinner with my family in Noodles & Co after graduation, we saw in the paper that Eoin Colfer was speaking at the St Louis County Library in 45 minutes. We hurried back to my house, got in the car, whipped out the GPS, and got there just in time!
What I did not expect was that Eoin Colfer is super funny. Although I guess I should have figured that, because his writing voice is really snarky. Almost to the point where it annoys me if I read it now. At the talk he told stories from his childhood in Ireland (he once let his brother fall out of a moving car, and in order to see who got to watch the color tv his friends would line up and get shot at with a pellet gun by the kid with the tv from an upstairs window) and about raising his sons. He was a great storyteller and he was hilarious.
I even got to ask a question at the signing. I wanted to know if he does any other jobs while he's writing a book, because I want to know how to structure my life. Mr. Colfer said, "Before Artemis Fowl took off I taught school. But now I like to do one book project and one theater project, so I get to meet people."
It seems like a good idea to have a project interacting with people while you do your freelance illustrations or write your novel. Sitting in a room trying to write is not very inspiring and is actually pretty lonely and disorienting. Probably applies to illustration too.
So I got my beat up copy of Artemis Fowl signed, got a picture, and got a copy of his new book for my twelve-year-old cousin (although I may read it first).
I think Eoin Colfer thought I was about fifteen years old. But then again, I was there with my entire family.
ComDes seniors are now ComDes alumni! It's been an honor being part of this community this year, especially after a rough start and a leave of absence. Get ready, illustration & design worlds!
P.S. I love that bottom photo, because (a) everyone is adorable and (b) I look huge! Normally I'm the tiniest person in the picture, but not today. NOT TODAY!
Sketchbook from graduation. Our guest speaker was Cory Booker, who is an inspiring person and an incredible storyteller. Today is the first day of the rest of my life!
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I do this so, so often, in both writing and speech. I get the impression it's a gendered habit, which makes it the worst because over-qualifying your statements not only means you don't believe in yourself, but also takes on the weight of CENTURIES OF OPPRESSION and you are BETRAYING ALL WOMEN.
However, I think it's actually quite culturally valuable to acknowledge the difference between fact and opinion, between ideas you firmly believe and ideas you're just forming. The qualifier signals that you're open to other people's ideas and that your experience is subjective. Degree of certainty is a useful level of meta-information.
Last year when I worked on a farm with a bunch of guys, I used to get so annoyed because everyone would state really absurd beliefs as though they were fact. At first I was like, "What kind of self-important asshole are you?" But my farm bros did debate topics that were really subjective that they disagreed about, like their religious beliefs, and they were pretty respectful. I guess among guy culture (and of course I'm really generalizing here) it's just assumed that if someone disagrees with you, they'll state their own contradicting opinion with equal certainty. I kind of discovered that subjectivity is just assumed, but it's really significant that certainty is the explicit default. Back here in college, girls really frequently encase their answers in class in a bunch of qualifiers, like, "Well, I think, maybe, in a way, kind of? I don't know." It's also not productive to take no responsibility for what we're saying. Then the default is needing someone else's encouragement.
The upshot of the two extremes is that "I am right unless you say I'm wrong" is masculine and "I am wrong unless you say I'm right" is feminine. In a talk between people with these two conversation styles, the masculine-style speaker's ideas will always dominate, and this is a problem.
There has to be some happy medium that encodes, like, reasonable levels of uncertainty and openness that we can reach without moving everyone to the level of My Thoughts Are Fact.
My other classmate Chris Hohl is on tumblr and he made these stunning Avatar linocuts. Chris Chris sell me posters I will give you moneys!
Chris is such a good digital painter and he's super imaginative and good at composing pictures. Plus his thesis project is a book of concept art for The Amber Spyglass, which, as far as I'm concerned, 'nuff said.
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